Adjustable and interchangeable advertising sign



Aug. 20, 1929. A. KUGLER 1,725,008

ADJUSTABLE AND INTERCHANGEABLE ADVERTISING SIGN Filed July 9, 1927 Patented Aug. 20, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST KUGLER, OF STUTTGART, GERMANY.

Application filed July 9,

The fixation of advertising signs between two poles has been carried out hitherto by making in the poles, near the top end of the same and prior to the erection, holes designed to receive the bolts which carry the cross-beams which extend from one pole to the other and support the characters. The characters themselves were fixed on the cross-beams in a similar manner.

This fixation presents the inconvenience that, after the erection of the poles, the holes for the reception of the bolts for the crossbeams were not at accurately the same distance from the ground, so that fresh holes had to be bored either in one or in both poles in order to make the cross-beams parallel with the ground.

It is further rather difficult to mount the characters in vertical position on the crossbeams when the holes were bored beforehand for the reason that, when the crossbeams have been fixed on the poles, they bend sometimes.

This invention has for its object to avoid said inconveniences by making the cross beams, and thereby the rows of characters and the several characters themselves adjustable in the longitudinal and transverse direction with regard to the poles and to make the characters themselves adjustable in the direction of the cross-beams. The adjustability of the cross-beams with regard to the poles is obtained by mounting one cross-beam in an eye, which is securely fixed on one of the poles by a clip, an extension arm of the eye being clamped by the clip. The characters are adjustably mounted on the cross-beams in a similar manner.

The improved fixation, according to the invention, presents further the advantage that the characters are interchangeable and that the cross-beams might be curved from the one pole to the other.

An embodiment of the invention is shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which:

1927. Serial No. 204,613.

Fig. 1 shows a fixation of a cross-beam to a pole,

Fig. 2 shows in which manner a bowshaped cross-beam is fixed on a pole.

Fig. 3 illustrates the fixation of a character on a cross-beam.

Fig. 4 shows the connection of a crossbeam with a pole.

Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view showing the two posts.

Clips 1) are placed on the pole a, and under these clips metal straps 0 forming each an eye cl at the top end are clamped. The eyes cl serve each to hold one end of a cross-beam 6. On each cross-beam a number of eyes f of metal straps g are mounted, the lower end of each metal-strap being fixed by screws h to the characters 2'.

In order to avoid the poles sinking or adopting an inclined position in the ground, the poles a are embedded each in a concrete foundation Z so that they cannot alter their positions.

1. Adjustable and interchangeable advertising signs, comprising in combination two poles, two cross-beams on which the characters are fixed, two clips on each pole placed a convenient distance apart, a metal strap on each end of each cross-beam having an eye at the upper end and engaging the crossbeam and the lower end of each strap being clamped against the post by the corresponding clip.

2. In an adjustable and interchangeable advertising sign as specified in claim 1. in combination with the poles and the crossbeams, a number of metal straps forming each an eye at the top end mounted on each cross-beam, characters fixed on the lower portion of said metal straps by screws, and a concrete foundation for each pole.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

AUGUST KUGLER. 

